bloquéesvsbloquerWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: bloquées is a adjective, bloquer is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“bloquées” is an adjective and “bloquer” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#23,119
“bloquées” frequency rank
#4,833
“bloquer” frequency rank
27952
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature bloquées bloquer
Definition Féminin pluriel de bloqué. Fermer par un blocus les avenues d'une place, les approches d'un port, etc, immobiliser par un blocus.

Same sound, different letters: bloquées vs bloquer

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.

8 ch
bloquées
7 ch
bloquer

Ear matches; page differs - bloquées and bloquer

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: bloquées and bloquer carry the same recorded pronunciation, \blɔ.ke\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27952, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

bloquées is recorded at frequency rank #23,119, classified as anadj, pronounced \blɔ.ke\. bloquer is at rank #4,833, tagged as averb, pronounced \blɔ.ke\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 27952, this pair ranks #325,785 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of bloquées vs bloquer

Shared letters: beloqu. Private to "bloquées": . Private to "bloquer": r.

"bloquées" · 8 letters · shape CCVCVVVC  ·  "bloquer" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • bloquerbbloquer · blloquer · bloqeur · bloqquer · bloquerr · bloqure · blouqer · blqouer

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "bloquées" and "bloquer" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "bloquées" is an adjective and "bloquer" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "bloquées" or "bloquer" show up more?
"bloquer" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,833 in our French list, against #23,119 for "bloquées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "bloquées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "bloquer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #325,785 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "bloquées" and "bloquer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "bloquées vs bloquez". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #325,785 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list